Please read the following piece of news and see how Time or church or both perceive Islam in this enlightened century.

Interfaith

…and the Vatican sense of urgency regarding Islam’s various faces , although as keen as the rest of the world’s, remains papally undefined. “It’s the 88-lb. gorilla sitting in the room,” says a well-placed Vatican source. “It’s huge and expanding, has violent elements, so what will be the church’s modus operandi confronting this system?” (Time, US Edition, April 18, 2005, page 2).